PRESS INFORMATION FROM TUTILL REMEMBRANCE ITEMS




Going Down To The Sea in Ships

In spite of the Channel Tunnel, Britons remain an island race. Our history shaped by a navy tradition born in the reign of Henry the Eighth, the grit and determination of merchant mariners who kept the country fed during two world wars, and a national pastime of messing about in boats. Yet from being very much a minority option, burial at sea is becoming more popular for those who have spent their life on or around the waters that surround the British Isles.

Tutill Remembrance Items for one, report an increase in interest in its range of water-soluble ashes containers, and the Chaplaincy at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth now regularly undertakes between three to four committals of this kind each week for service and ex-service personnel. Around the country too, a small - but growing - number of boat charter companies are adding this special service to their mainstream operations.

"Peoples' ideas about funerals are changing, and the emphasis is shifting now more towards the idea of celebrating a life. Choosing to have your ashes accepted by the sea is a part of that change", says Susan Tutill, managing director of Tutill Remembrance Items.

"In the past, this was always an option - but families and friends may well have found it difficult to raise the topic with their funeral director. Burial at sea itself is now tightly controlled, and in any case can now only take place off the Needles, south of the Isle of Wight, and between Hastings and Newhaven, on the south coast. Scattering of a loved one's ashes, or placing them in the water within a suitable casket can by contrast take place almost anywhere. Indeed, a water-soluble urn such as we provide can also be used inland, on rivers, lakes or even waterways" Susan Tutill adds.

To help people decide whether burial at sea is for them, Tutill Remembrance Items have produced an information sheet that the general public can ask for from their local funeral director. The sheet also gives details of boat charter companies, and other organisations - such as the Royal Navy - which can help in fulfilling this particular wish.

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Image caption: "Water-soluble burial at sea ashes casket from Tutill Remembrance"

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Editors contact:	Ewan Scott 	Aardvark Associates 	tel. 01484 864 520 
(mob. 07951 963 433) or 01308 897 911
Company contact:	Tutill Remembrance Items		tel. 01428 714041

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both Aardvark Associates and Tutill Remembrance Items decline all liability in the case of omissions or errors.